A no-wipe spray process offers another route to repeatable wood finishes. The clear base supports manual or automated application for cabinetry, furniture and other interior products.
The new agent offers excellent leveling for solventborne clear coats, excellent anti-popping properties, and is very easy to process due to low viscosity.
General Motors (GM) recognized BASF’s Coatings division as an Overdrive Award winner as part of its 30th annual Supplier of the Year awards ceremony, held recently in Phoenix, Arizona.
This study reveals the degradation mechanism of a typical acrylic melamine automotive clearcoat caused by bird droppings. It was found that natural bird droppings and pancreatin are able to catalyze the hydrolytic cleavage of etheric and esteric linkages of acrylic melamine clearcoats, leaving etched areas and local defects as well as a decreased appearance on the clearcoat surface.
